Custom Guitar Video | RICK TURNER 01: Icon of American Guitar Making
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Loading ...Posted on: August 19, 2009
Posted in: Acoustic Luthier, Custom Acoustic Guitar, Custom Electric Guitar, Custom Guitar Music, Custom Guitar Video, Electric Expert, Electric Luthier
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Rick Turner co-founded Alembic in 1970 and was involved in the design and construction of the Alembic instruments. He founded Rick Turner Guitars in 1979 and joined Gibson in 1988 where he served as president of Gibson Labs West Coast R&D Division.
Turner left Gibson in 1992 and ran a guitar repair shop at Westwood Music in Los Angeles where he developed piezo pickup designs, working with Jackson Browne, David Crosby and others. He later co-founded Highlander Musical Audio, manufacturer of piezo pickups for acoustic guitars. He continues to design and build guitars for many professional players such as Lindsey Buckingham, Ry Cooder, David Lindley, David Crosby and Andy Summers. His present company is Renaissance Guitars and he has partnered with Seymour Duncan to form D-TAR.
Gourmet Guitars’ featured one of the most famous master luthiers and “inventors” in American Guitar History, Rick Turner. Based in Santa Cruz, CA, Rick has built guitars for some of the most successful guitarists of all time. Watch his custom guitar video as he talks about being one of the sound pioneers of the Grateful Dead. His Model 1 custom electric guitar has written rock and pop history by being the main guitar of Lindsay Buckingham, who turned it into one of the cornerstones of the Fleetwood Mac sound. He has also worked very successfully as manager of the R&D department of the Gibson guitar company. He designed the Chet Atkins model and was part of the revival of the Les Paul with Slash of Guns&Roses in the 1990’s. Watch a part of Rock’n Roll history and enjoy Rick, Henry Kaiser, Richard Glick and Bill Walker. Learn about the influence of Howe-Orme guitars and Space-Age technology like graphite braces and ceramic frets in guitar making.
